Gloria Steinem: The transnational life of an American feminist

This dissertation uses Gloria Steinem, the United States' most internationally prominent feminist of the 1970s, to demonstrate that women's movement activists in the United States were involved in and connected to women's movements and feminist activists in other parts of the world. It explores how they understood their actions and conceptualized their movement as part of a more global movement. Through Steinem's experience, the dissertation explains the appeal that US feminists had in reaching out to a global audience in both legitimizing their own movement and in giving them continued access to feminist activism. The dissertation argues that, in attending to Steinem's life, we see the internationalization of the US women's movement and how it fits into a growing global feminist movement. (Full text of this dissertation may be available via the University of Florida Libraries web site. Please check http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/etd.html )